ERX MPLS Configuration Basics

Release 4.0

Student Guide

Contents
Module 0: Course and Student Introduction Module 1: MPLS Overview Module 2: Best Effort Hop by Hop Module 3: Topology Driven LSPs Module 4: BGP-MPLS VPNs Module 5: MPLS Traffic Engineering

Course Overview
This course provides technical network professionals with the skills they need to successfully install, configure, and troubleshoot the Edge Routing Switch (ERX) in a basic MPLS network. The course covers the fundamentals of MPLS, MPLS Traffic Engineering, and MPLS VPNs. Students learn about LDP, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE as well as MPLS internetworking with ISIS, OSPF, and BGP. The course consists of over 50% hands-on exercises.

Objectives
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to: Describe the basic MPLS label switching model. Configure MPLS tunnels. Configure MPLS tunnel advertisement to an IGP. Describe the establishment of MPLS LSP for traffic engineering. Configure the ERX for MPLS explicitly routed tunnels. Configure MPLS traffic engineered tunnels. Define the terms P router, PE router, and CE router. Configure the ERX to support VPNs over MPLS label switched paths. Configure VRFs. Configure address family based BGP advertisements.

Intended Audience
This course is intended for network professionals responsible for the integration, configuration and management of ERX MPLS router networks.

Course Level
This is an advanced-level course.

Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the ERX MPLS Configuration Basics class are:

Introduction to the ERX ERX Circuit Aggregation Basics

Course Overview

Course Agenda Day 1

Course and Student Introduction Module 1 MPLS Overview Describe the IP/ATM overlay model Describe the MPLS label switching architecture Define basic MPLS terminology Describe the MPLS shim header Describe the various MPLS path establishment models List the MPLS label distribution protocols

Module 2 Best Effort Hop by Hop Describe the basic MPLS label switching model Define LSP end point types List label distribution protocol message classes Describe LDP neighbor session establishment Describe LSP establishment steps Describe loop detection mechanisms in LSP establishment Configure the ERX for MPLS best effort hop by hop LSPs

Lab 1 Basic MPLS Path Configuration Configure MPLS LSPs in a network based on static routes Configure MPLS global parameter Configure MPLS interface parameters Configure MPLS tunnels

Lab 2A Hop by Hop OSPF or Lab 2B Hop by Hop ISIS Configure MPLS LSPs in a network running OSPF/ISIS as the IGP Configure MPLS global parameter Configure MPLS interface parameters Configure MPLS tunnels Configure MPLS tunnel advertisement to an IGP

Day 2
Module 3 Topology Driven LSPs Define the terms P router, PE router and CE router Describe the ERX implementation of VRF

Course Overview VPNs Describe the use of BGP MP extensions in the implementation of Describe the use of address families in configuring BGP MPLS VPNs Describe the tunnel stacking methodology in BGP MPLS VPNs Explain the concept of a base tunnel Configure the ERX to support VPNs over MPLS label switched paths

Lab 3A Topology Driven LSPs with OSPF or Lab 3B Topology Driven LSPs with ISIS Configure the ERX to support VPNs using BGP over MPLS tunnels Configure MPLS global parameter Configure MPLS interface parameters Configure an MPLS base tunnel between BGP peers Configure VRFs Configure address family based BGP advertisements

Module 4 BGP-MPLS VPNs Describe MPLS explicit routing Describe operation of the ERX CAC Describe the interaction between IGPs and MPLS

Describe the use of MPLS bandwidth parameter in traffic engineering Describe the use of MPLS affinity parameters in traffic engineering Describe reoptimization options Describe the establishment of MPLS LSP using RSVP-TE Describe the establishment of MPLS LSP using CR-LDP

Configure the ERX to support traffic engineered label switched paths

Day 3
Lab 4A BGP-MPLS VPN OSPF or Lab 4B BGP-MPLS VPN ISIS Configure MPLS LSPs in a network running OSPF/ISIS as the IGP Configure MPLS global parameter Configure MPLS interface parameters

Configure MPLS explicitly routed tunnels using RSVP-TE as the label distribution protocol Configure MPLS traffic engineered tunnels using CR-LDP as the label distribution protocol Module 5 MPLS Traffic Engineering

Course Overview Lab 5A MPLS Traffic Engineering Configuration with OSPF Lab 5B MPLS Traffic Engineering Configuration with ISIS